Martin Bachwerk wrote: > Hi, > > yes, well my browser settings are set to display sites in following > languages "en-gb" then "en". > > As a matter of fact, Google does indeed show me the German site first, > before I click on "go to google.com" and it probably stores a cookie to > remember that. > > But a site like gizmodo.com forwards me directly to the English site > (even though they have a German version available). But the Python call > returns the German version. How does that make sense?
I don't know. You need to have a look at what the browser communicates, through a tool like tcpmon or wireshark. Once you've gathered all needed header-information, you can mimic the same request using urllib. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list